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Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers, Yannick Joye
Conclusion
We have undertaken what we stress is a preliminary exploration of a complex, multifaceted issue: architectures influence on moral responsibility and
educating for responsible agency. Needless to say, we have touched on only
selective elements of this composite project. We have attempted to forge relevant connections among ethical perception, architecture, moral responsibility, and educating for such responsibility. Taking our cue from Aristotle,
Notes
1. Gilbert Harman, The Nature of Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1977),4.
2. Charles Starkey, On the Category of Moral Perception, Social Theory and Practice 32 (2006): 79.
3. Beth Dixon, Animals, Emotion, and Morality: Marking the Boundary (Amherst, NY:
Prometheus Books, 2008), 133.
4. Starkey, On the Category of Moral Perception, 8081.
5. Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970),
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6. Ibid., 1718.
7. Starkey, On the Category of Moral Perception, 8182.
8. Rising to this challenge, Starkey advances such an analysis.
9. Nancy Sherman, The Fabric of Character (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 29.
10. Dixon, Animals, Emotion, and Morality, 13334.
11. Ibid., 134.
12. See, for example, Robert Audi, Responsible Action and Virtuous Character, in
his Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character (New York: Oxford University Press,
1997), 15773, for an informative exploration of the Aristotelian idea of responsibility for character.
13. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, trans. Richard McKeon (New York: Random
House, 1966), 1114a321114b3.
14. Sherman, The Fabric of Character, 152.
15. Ibid., 156.
16. Cf. Aga Khan IV, Architecture as a Force for Change, in his Where Hope Takes
Root (Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008), 74.
17. See, for instance, Oscar Newmans defensible space thesis in his Defensible
Space: Crime Prevention through Urban Design (New York: Macmillan, 1972), for
designs (allegedly) benign influence on certain kinds of antisocial or criminal
behavior.
18. See, for example, Satoshi Sakuragawa, Tomoyuki Kaneko, and Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Effects of Contact with Wood on Blood Pressure and Subjective Evaluation, Journal of Wood Science 54 (2008): 10713; and Satoshi Sakuragawa, Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Tomoyuki Kaneko, and Teruoj Makita, Influence of Wood Wall
Panels on Physiological and Psychological Responses, Journal of Wood Science 51
(2005): 13640.
19. See, for instance, Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan, The Experience of Nature:
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